farhad bomanjee

Ffffound, another Ffffotographer from India: Farhard Bomanjee, with website in English, so there’s international orientation for you. So why do I need to spend several hours googling to find this guy? Is my search machine afraid of entering lesser known territories? I liked looking at his recent work best, perhaps because of the strange distribution of people in a landscape. I found out this was intentional:

[Bomanjee] is currently working on a series of landscapes with people. Here the desire is to portray people during their leisure time. The landscape is their context. Some pictures show many people in their landscape. Of initial interest here is the topography, and the spacing between people which forms the picture when seen from a distance.

Bomanjee operates from and lives in Mumbay, one of the most crowded cities in the world, where often there is not even a handbreadth of space between you and the next person in the street. Should we then wonder someone develops an interest in spacing between people?